First Look: Adobe Lightroom beta

Adobe has launched a competing product to Apple's Aperture.

"Adobe promotes Lightroom as the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images.? Unlike Photoshop Adobe's image-editing application that must serve many masters, including graphic artists and Web designs Lightroom is aimed squarely at photographers. That said, Photoshop complements Lightroom when there's a heavy image-editing task to handle. And Lightroom makes it easy to open a picture in Photoshop. Generally speaking, though, the tools in Photoshop that photographers need most of the time exist right within Lightroom."